Each layer of the tandem solar cell, its doping or its thickness, plays a primary task in improving the conversion efficiency. The optimization of the doping of the window layer of the lower solar cell of the tandem cell contributes to the reduction of the cost of the manufacture of its cells. The objective of this work is to show the role of doping the lower window layer on the performances of tandem CS in InGaP / GaAs with a tunnel heterojunction. For this a simulation is carried out using the Atlas-Silvaco simulator. It is specially designed for 2D and 3D modeling of components based on the physics of semiconductors, including electrical, optical and thermal properties The adapted structure is essentially composed of an upper cell in InGaP and a lower cell in GaAs. Between the two upper and lower cells, there is a heterojunction tunnel) P ++ N ++. The structure studied is composed of a thin window layer heavily doped with the materialIn0.629Al0.159Ga0.371P0.841 .Our simulation showed that, for an illumination of AM 1.5 and at room temperature, the parameters, such as the short-circuit current and the conversion efficiency, improve with the doping of the upper window layer.The best conversion efficiency is 24.2343% for a doping of 8x1018 cm-3.
In this paper, we have simulated a copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cell using a physically based two-dimensional device simulator SILVACO Atlas. The simulation of electrical characteristics and quantum efficiency was under AM1.5 illumination and a temperature of 300 K. In this work, we changed the band gap of CuInxGa1 -xSe to optimize the efficiency of the solar cell. We obtained it by varying the absorber layer thickness with different mole fractions x that affects the efficiency of the solar cell. The simulation result shows that the maximum efficiency of 16.62 % was achieved with a band gap of 1.67 eV and a thickness of 3 µm, a short-circuit current density of 29.293 mA/cm 2 , an open-circuit voltage of 1.29 V, and a fill factor of 87.79 %. The obtained results show that the proposed design can be considered as a potential candidate for high performance photovoltaic applications.
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